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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-18936

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been sent outwith their own NHS board area for sleep services in each year since 1999, broken down by board area.

Question reference: S2W-18934

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have provided sleep services in each year since 1999 and what type of service each board has provided.

Question reference: S2W-18935

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been on waiting lists for sleep services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S2W-18587

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18057 by Cathy Jamieson on 18 August 2005, whether the criteria for police issuing written warnings to children is standard across police forces and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.

Matters of operational procedure are for Chief Constables to decide rather than the Scottish Executive. The range of disposals can include a warning from a senior police officer, a police restorative warning, referral to the Children’s Panel, or in serious cases, a report to the Procurator Fiscal. The reporter to the Children’s Panel is normally consulted in all cases.

It is important when dealing with children to consider each case on its merits so that an appropriate response can be made. Applying a set of fixed criteria for written warnings would run contrary to this.

The Executive produced guidelines in June 2004 on the use of Police Restorative Warnings by the Police, supported by £500,000 over two years to fund implementation. Chief Officers are committed to replacing the senior police officer warning across Scotland with restorative warnings by April 2006.

Question reference: S2W-18389

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2005
Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 5 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Visit Scotland regarding commemorating the 700th anniversary of the execution of Sir William Wallace.

Question reference: S2W-18563

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2005
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 5 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17815 by Elish Angiolini QC on 9 August 2005, how many children accused of a statutory racial offence and separately racial aggravation were referred to the Reporter to the Children's Panel in each year since 2002-03 to date, broken down by police force area.

The information requested is set out in the following table:

Number of Children referred to Children’s Reporter by Procurators Fiscal

	Police Force Area	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	Grand Total
Racial Charge	Central	12	13	44	69
	Fife	5	10	5	20
	Grampian	4	0	5	9
	Northern	1	0	1	2
	Strathclyde	55	99	97	251
	Tayside	0	5	5	10
	Lothian and Borders	14	9	15	38
	Racial Charge Total	91	136	172	399
Racial Aggravation	Fife	0	1	1	2
	Northern	0	0	1	1
	Strathclyde	11	25	17	53
	Tayside	2	3	0	5
	Lothian and Borders	9	8	6	23
	Racial Aggravation Total	22	37	25	84

Notes :

1. The information in this table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s Case Management Database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies.

2. The information in the table is based on the first charge recorded for each accused person. Some accused persons who appear in this table under the “Racial Charge” heading may also have been subject to other charges in the same case involving a “Racial Aggravation”, and vice versa. An accused person will appear in the table more than once if they were the subject of two or more police reports relating to separate incidents.

Question reference: S2W-18136

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many external consultants it has used to validate data and statistics produced by non-departmental public bodies (NDPB) in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04 and (c) 2004 to date, broken down by NDPB, and what the cost was to (i) it and (ii) each NDPB in terms of fees paid in each period.

Question reference: S2W-18388

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any problems being experienced by users of digital hearing aids in having them properly tuned.

Question reference: S2W-18385

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what training is given in the tuning of digital hearing aids.

Question reference: S2W-18383

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12998 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2005, when information on the provision of digital hearing aids will be available centrally.